The University of Minnesota Duluth Athletic Department held its third annual Bulldog Awards Wednesday night inside the Marshall Performing Art Center on campus, with around 450 Bulldog student athletes in attendance and local community members in attendance.

UMD Bulldogs "ALLETE" Moments: Classroom

Owen Leach wasn't thinking about the impact he could make on a stranger's life last spring on the campus of the University of Minnesota Duluth. The current redshirt freshman men's basketball player walked into the Romano Gym lobby and saw other UMD athletes promoting the NMPD – formerly Be The Match – cheek swabs, and was waived over by Bulldog football player. Leach obliged, thinking he would just do it because the student athlete asked him to. He had no idea he would get the opportunity of a lifetime.

UMD Bulldogs "ALLETE" Moments: Classroom